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Summary

Anti-Trump Americans, especially on the left, are showing a more subdued response to Trump’s 2024 reelection compared to the activism of 2016.

Exhaustion, disillusionment with repeated setbacks, and negative media coverage have led many to disengage from politics or shift focus to personal priorities.

Activist groups, like Women’s March, are planning protests but acknowledge lower enthusiasm and more localized efforts.

Experts suggest this “tune-out” may be a coping mechanism, with some hoping new, non-political participants will lead change.

Many feel drained but believe activism will eventually regain momentum.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

And this is why the right well always win. They go for what they want till they get it. How long did they fight to repel row vs wade?

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

yeah please tune out to make sure he gets zero pushback whatsoever. I mean it worked to get him elected president, why not advance to godking?

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

they tuned out years ago. that's why he's president again. who even cares about anything at this point? fuck it.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

The people who are tuning out now are the ones who are active during the elections. We exhausted ourselves trying to get someone we didn't really believe in elected president against someone we truly feared. And it was all for nothing because the Democratic party is incapable of appealing to the lower class.

I suspected we were in trouble when Kamala Harris embraced the endorsement from that absolute turd bag Dick Cheney and his equally shit daughter Liz. I saw Hillary try to pull the same stupid strategy back in 2016. They keep trying to lure Republicans to the Democratic side and it never never never works. Republicans do not care how "fiscally responsible" you tell them that you are. They will always vote for the person with the (R) next to their name. And while the Democrats are doing that they are repelling just everyone on the left. Especially those who are poor and don't give a shit how fiscally responsible you are they just want a break.

And now I really don't have any faith in the Democratic party at all. I don't think they're as bad as Republicans but they sing their songs to the same tunes the Republicans do. Just with different lyrics.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

i'm preparing mentally for the potential of a civil war ok. I need to be ready to bear the costs of the conflict, if it happens.

anyway, politically in the next four years we need to start building something we can't just sit here and pretend that the DNC will unfuck itself and stop being incompetent half the time, and we also can't pretend that abstaining from voting is going to fix things.

We need to be doing things, which for some reason, people really hate.

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

What are we supposed to do? We tried, this one had no ambiguity. If this is what people want, so be it. Gonna suck though so I’m spending my efforts on bracing myself for what’s to come.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

We tried, this one had no ambiguity.

I disagree. There is ambiguity to be found. The ambiguity cannot be found in why Trump won. He has a cult and inflation is a thing. But there exists ambiguity in why Harris lost. I do not believe in the notion that Americans are so hell-bent on fascism that they overwhelmingly support Trump and everything he does. I think Harris lost because she moved to the right and failed to meaningfully differentiate herself from an administration that inspired so much apathy that Biden himself said that he didn't care all that much if he lost.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago

nah, I don’t attribute it to malice, I attribute it to stupidity and ignorance.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (2 children)

What's wrong, people don't want a 24/7 news cycle of all the stupid shit Dumpster will say and do!?

You mean our media system pushing to have the Orange One elected to increase their ratings could backfire!?

I could only hope people stop paying attention and paying money for the corporate spun garbage we call news.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 weeks ago

There was so much less CNN blaring in my parents house after Biden was elected. It was nice. I'm not eager to return to that.

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[–] [email protected] 36 points 3 weeks ago

Hard to blame them. It's exhausting to keep up and fight with the crazy and stupid. Because to them it's no effort.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (2 children)

Scratch a liberal and they abandon you to the fascists I guess

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago

This has more to do with people feeling unrepresented in a FPTP-voting system polarizing the country to the extreme. Between that and wealth-inequality trouble is brewing.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

How dense are you? People are just tired from decades worth of having corporations and wealthy elites push the middle and lower class into the ground.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 3 weeks ago

Me too. Rolling over won't help

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